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US I CP Final Study Guide
Progressive Era
1. Define the 19th Amendment.
2. What was William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer’s main goal with their newspapers?
3. Describe Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Imperialism
4. What is the purpose of the Open Door Policy?
5. Define what is meant by “Speak softly and carry a big stick”.
6. Describe the Roosevelt Corollary.
7. Define the importance of the Panama Canal.
8. What was the cause of imperialism in the United States?
WORLD WAR I
9. Describe African American soldier’s role during World War I.
10. What are the main causes of World War I?
11. Define women’s gains during World War I.
12. Describe the United States involvement in World War I.
1920’s Life and Politics
13. Describe the Harlem Renaissance.
14. Define the “Great Migration”.
15. Describe women’s changing lives during the 1920s.
16. How was a national culture created in the 1920s?
17. Describe the creation of Jazz.
18. Define the installment plans and the affect that it had the economy in the 1920s.
19. Describe the policies of the Republican Presidents in the 1920s.
The Great Depression and The New Deal
20. Describe Hoover’s policy regarding the stock market.
21. Describe the factors that lead to economic prosperity in the 1920s.
22. What are the global effects of the United States Great Depression?
23. Define the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act and what its effects are.
24. Describe how the New Deal programs would help farmers.
25. What were FDR’s environmental policies?
26. Define the long-term effects of the Great Depression.
27. What was FDR’s first action as President and why?
28. Why is Eleanor Roosevelt such an important historical figure?
WORLD WAR II
29. Describe the Japanese American’s lives during World War II.
30. Describe the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
31. What was the US involvement in WWII before officially entering the war?
32. Describe the Wannsee Conference.
33. What was decided at the Yalta Conference?
34. Describe the reasons that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
The Cold War
35. Describe the Chinese Civil War after World War II.
36. Describe the Korean War and events.
37. Describe the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
38. Define the Truman Doctrine and its significance.
39. Describe the difference between World War I and World War II.
40. What is the Marshall Plan and what was the Soviet reaction to it?
41. Define Joseph McCarthy and his impact on American society.
42. Define NATO and its basic principles.
43. Describe the Peace Corps.
44. What lead Kennedy to call for quarantine in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
45. Describe the Great Society.
46. Why was the Berlin Wall built?
47. What was the purpose of the Kerner Commission and what were their findings?
48. Describe the domino theory.
49. What is the impact of the launching of Sputnik?
The Post War Boom
50. What are the major effects of business expansion after World War II?
51. What was William J. Levitt’s impact on American society?
52. Describe life in the suburbs and its influence on American consumer spending.
Civil Rights Movement
53. Explain the Supreme Court ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson.
54. Describe the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the reasons they were successful.
55. Describe Malcom X’s approach to the Civil Rights Movement.
56. What event set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement?
57. Define the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
58. Define de facto segregation.
59. What program was enacted during the Civil Rights Movement and is still highly debated today?
60. Describe Martin Luther King Jr. and his leadership role during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Vietnam War Years
61. What is the main goal of involvement in Vietnam?
62. Define the War Powers Act.
63. Describe Agent Orange.
64. Describe Kennedy’s Vietnam Policy.
An Era of Social Change and an Age of Limits
65. What was President Carter’s foreign policy?
66. Define the Camp David Accords.
67. What are the OPEC nations and what is their significance to the United States?
68. What is Nixon’s greatest foreign affair achievement?
69. President Ford’s most controversial act a president?
70. How did President Reagan appoint administrators to the Environmental Protection Agency?
71. Describe realpolitik.
72. What is the policy adopted by President Nixon used to reduce the size and power of the federal government?
73. Describe La Raza Unida.
74. What is the significance of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring?
The Conservative Tide
75. Explain supply-side economics.
76. Describe Sandra Day O’Connor’s significance.
77. Describe reverse discrimination.
78. What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
79. Define Jerry Falwell and his significance.
80. Describe Mikhail Gorbachev’s plans.
81. Where were both President Reagan and Bush most successful?
The United States in Today’s World
82. Bill Clinton is only the 2nd President in the history of the U.S. to be what?
83. What are the results of the global economy?
84. Define the technology revolution in the 1990’s.
85. What aspects of Social Security worked well?
86. Define genetic engineering.
87. Describe NAFTA.
88. What is the significance of the television in the United States?
89. What did President Clinton emphasize in his foreign policy?
90. An aging American population will strain what government ability?
91. What are the economic trends in the United States in the 1990s?